Professor Sarah Croucher’s Middletown Materials project features research undertaken by students from 2010 onwards on the artifacts recovered from excavations that have taken place in Middletown Connecticut.
Excavations took place in the 1970s in advance of redevelopment work of downtown Middletown. Several sites were excavated around the South End of Main Street. Professor Croucher will be focusing the first analysis on material from the Magill site. Over the course of several years she plans to analyze all of the sites so that we can learn more about the daily lives and identities of those living in the bustling eighteenth century port and later industrialized city.